Brutal Quote by Kim Ki-duk

I'm really interested in violence. And I think there's an inevitably cinematic property that violence brings to the moviegoing experience. But one still has…

— Karyn Kusama

I think if there was no violence in our world, there would be no violence in film. Violence is a part of human nature,…

— Niels Arden Oplev

Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence…

— James Purefoy

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. Asking me about violence is like going up to Vincente Minnelli and asking him to justify his…

— Quentin Tarantino

My approach to violence is that if it's pertinent, if that's the kind of movie you're making, then it has a purposeI think there's…

— Guy Ritchie

How our availability, our showing up, our presence, leaves us open to that violence. I think it's a question of language, as it arrives…

— Claudia Rankine

At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us…

— Pauline Kael

Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.

— Stephen A. Diamond

Having been created in the image and likeness of God, unlike trees or flowers or fire or the moon, we are most fully human…

— Daniel Horan

The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a…

— Sam Peckinpah

I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage that nature,…

— Dalai Lama

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

— Fritz Lang